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(No Model.)

P. H. BURRILL 8v G. G. RUSSELL.

SCALE PAN.

No. 399,315. Patented Mar. l2, 1889.

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FRANK HENRY DURRILL AND GEORGE GARDNER RUSSELL, OF CONCORD, MASSACIHYSETTS.

SCALE-PN.

SPECIFICATION forming part. of Letters Patent No. 399,315, dated March 12, 1889.

Application tiled November 23, 1888. Serial No. 291,685. (No modela To all whom it may concern,.-

Be it known that we, FRANK HENRY BUR- RILL and GEORGE GARDNER RUssELL, citi.- zens ot the lnited States, residing at Concord, in the count)v of Middlesex and State ot' Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Scale-Pans; and we do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exa-et description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it apliertains to make and use the same, ret'- erence being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures of reference :marked thereon, which form a part ot this specification.

Figure l. is a vertical and median section of a scale-pan constructed in accordance with our invention. Fig. 2 is a similar section oit a portion of the pan, taken in a plane at right angles to that of Fig. l. llig. Si is a horizontal section on line l I3 of Fig. l, showing an under side view ot' the slide-plates which close the opening' in the bottom of the pan. Fig. -l is a perspective view of the scale-pan.

The nature of our invention is defined in the claims hereinafter presented.

In the drawings, A denotes the scale-pan, which is an `inverted hollow truncated cone having secured to its smaller end a plate, P, the perimeter of which is rectangular, and where the said plate is joined to the pan it has a circular opening of equal diameter with the openin gin the pan, said openings together vforming the cduet B ot' the pan. A frame, Q, is secured to the edges of the plate P, and to the outer surface ot' the pan, and projects below the said plate, as represented.

In the space R within the frame Q, and below the plate P, and arranged to move in opposite directions in guides O O, secured to said plate, are slide-plates C C, which abut at their inner edges in the middle of and so as to close the cduet B, and at their opposite edges are provided with turned-down portions D D, connected to each other by springs G, which serve to keep the plates C (l closed under the ed uct B.

The springs may be, it preferred, arranged between the portions D of the slides and the ends ot the trame Q, instead of as shown in the drawings, thein either case serving to close the slides.

lelow the plates O O is a tube, F, to receive and guide the contents of the pan into a bag or vessel, said tube heilig' supported by a iiange, d, lnojeeting from it, as shown, the perimeter oit which coincides with that ot' the frame Q, and it sustained against the lower edge of said frame by screws c, which pass through the flange and scrcwinto and through the guides O and plate P, as represented.

Pivoted to ears ff, projecting from the tube F, are levers E E, the longer arm, a, oi' which extends upward through slots g in the ilange d, and between the tube F and the parts D D ol the slides C C. The arms l) ot' the levers E are arranged at an obtuse angle to the arms u, and by pressing the arms t) toward each other and against the tube by the thumb and fingers of the hand the arms a d, bearing against the parts D D, will move the slides C O awaav from each other and from under the educt ll. ly releasing the arms l) from the grasp ot' the hand the springs G will instantly close the slides together, the stops 7i preventing either slide :from passing beyond the middle ot' the educt ll. The arms o also will support a bag when the top part or edge of it is passed up between them and the tube l?, and is pressed against said tube by the arms when grasped by the hand, while the contents oit the pan is passing 'from `it through the tube F and into the said bag. Sometimes we appl y hooks 1l to the tube l1 to receive and sustain a bag, particularly when the pan is adapted to scales for weighing grain, ttc.

The pan hereinbefore described can be adapted to scales of different kinds, and may be suspended buv a bail or applied in anyother suitable manner to the scales with which it is used, and is a very convenient arrangementfor thc purpose for which it is intended.

Having described our invention, what we claim irsl. The scale-pan substantially as described, 9

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with the turned-down portions D, the springs G, to close the slides, the tube F, provided with the flange, slotted as described and held in Contact With the frame by screws, and the levers E, pvoted to the said tube, to move the slides so as to open the eduet B, all essentially as set forth and represented.

2. The scale-pan comprising the pan A, provided with an eduet, B, of the frame Q and perforated plate P, secured to eaeh other and to the pan and provided with guides O, the slides C, adapted to be moved in said guides, the springs G, the levers E,fulerumed to the tube F, the said tube F having` a slotted ange, d, by which said tube is connected by suitable means to the frame, and the hooks 7l, connected to the tube, all essentially as set forth and represented.

In testimony whereof We aflX our signatures in presence of two Witnesses.

FRANK HENRY BURRILL. GEORGE GARDNER RUSSELL.

Witnesses:

PREsooTT KEYES, ALICE R. KEYES. 

